Game scoring summary request - opinions welcome

from Stardock Forums
I just recently found out that if you finish the game before Jan 2190 your score is half of what it could be.

Something like this brings me to a feature that I would love to see at the summary screen of the game, a score summary.

The score summary should show what is calculated to make the end game score. Since all the calculation are most likely done at the end of the game why not just do a bit of formating and print them to the screen?

This may help people get larger scores in all aspects of the game.

Any comments? Stupid idea or what?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Great idea. will be nice if you could have a small box that will pop when you press a particular key like "s" for score and you see what your score is going to be at that particular moment if the game ends, but the only thing is that you have different choices of winning methods.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Both excellent ideas, but I don't see something like that ever making it into GalCiv1 unfortunately. Hopefully something can be done for GC2.

The hotkey would have been so useful last night, when I was trying for 60K on a crippling. Ended up reloading the endgame save and researching another tech after getting 59,984. :)
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I can never seem to get a score higher than 35000 on a large map even playing maso.

I typically do not milk population and win as soon as i can. is this a mistake in scorinf strategy?

I get bored playing a game after the outcome is in doubt.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I can never seem to get a score higher than 35000 on a large map even playing maso
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Using 1.20, that wouldn't be far off the average.

Play the same way on a large maso now you've got AP, and you should see a significant increase. 60K is fairly easy on a large / maso / military win now.

Just don't finish a game before Jan 2190, as that halves the score.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I typically do not milk population and win as soon as i can. is this a mistake in scorinf strategy?
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I guess it depends what you want to achieve. If you want to climb in the metaverse ranking, there isn't any point in gaining few Mpts per submit: spending time to gain 10% in score when you could have submit another game isn't really worth the trouble